Marienaltar: Geburt Mariae

Reichlich employs a pronounced chiaroscuro, allowing the illuminated faces to emerge from a predominantly dark, wood‑panelled space. This contrast heightens emotional expression and draws the viewer’s focus to the intimate gestures of the attendants. The palette is restrained, with touches of white, red, and green that punctuate the gloom and guide the eye through the narrative.

Commissioned for a church altar in the early sixteenth century, the painting functioned alongside other liturgical panels depicting biblical episodes. Over the centuries it changed hands before entering the Alte Pinakothek’s holdings, where it remains on display as an example of Austrian contributions to the Northern Renaissance and of Reichlich’s late career output.